[visual-c++] Failure during conversion to COFF: file invalid or corrupt

When I try building just a simple program into VS2010, compiling succeeds yet when I try to build the solution it gives me this error:

LINK : fatal error LNK1123: failure during conversion to COFF: file invalid or corrupt

What am I doing wrong?

Do you have Visual Studio 2012 installed as well? If so, 2012 stomps your 2010 IDE, possibly because of compatibility issues with .NET 4.5 and .NET 4.0.

See http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/da-DK/vssetup/thread/d10adba0-e082-494a-bb16-2bfc039faa80

I had this issue and I solved it with this thread

disable incremental linking, by going to

    Project Properties 
       -> Configuration Properties 
           -> Linker (General) 
              -> Enable Incremental Linking -> "No (/INCREMENTAL:NO)"

I am using Visual Studio 2010.

This happened to me when I installed .NET 4.5. Uninstall of .NET 4.5 and install of .NET 4.0 helped me and error messages disappeared.

In my case it was just caused because there was not enough space on the disk for cvtres.exe to write the files it had to.

The error was preceded by this line

CVTRES : fatal error CVT1106: cannot write to file

This issue occurred after Visual Studio 2012 installation. The issue resolved by replacing the cvtres.exe from VS2010 with the one from VS2012.

Thank you to "social.msdn"!

I had this issue after installing dotnetframework4.5.
Open path below:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\bin" ( in 64 bits machine)
or
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\bin" (in 32 bits machine)
In this path find file cvtres.exe and rename it to cvtres1.exe then compile your project again.

Had to install VS 2010 SP1 in order to get it to work again for myself. Lame microsoft.

If you have installed VS2012 as well, the old cvtres file will no longer work.

Try removing the file (I simply renamed):
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\BIN\cvtres.exe

You can also debug using the /VERBOSE linker option in order to get more information regarding the linker error. There you should see an error message that the invoke to cvtres fails.